| Summary: | Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned Statement: The data was contributed from several national and State sources including the Australian Hydrographic Service, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia and Northern Territory. The information was synthesised and the information collected to describe rocky reef location on the Australian Continental shelf is described by 4 tiers. Tier 1 are high resolution multibeam ‘local surveys’ generally carried out by the State stakeholders, Tier 2 are ‘regional surveys’ generally collected by CSIRO’s National Marine Facility. Tier 3 are national scale surveys from the Australian Hydrographic Service and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Tier 4 is a ‘reef probability’ information source isolated from the Australian Hydrographic Service's (AHS) deep features S57 layer. Credit Australian Hydrographic Service (AHS) Credit CSIRO Credit Geoscience Australia Credit Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) , NSW Credit NT Government Credit Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR), SA Credit Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) Credit School of Life and Environmental Sciences (LES), Deakin University Credit Centre for Marine Futures (UWA) Credit Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) Credit National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub Purpose To improve knowledge of shelf reef habitat in Australian waters by collating all known habitat mapping data from government and industry into a single data product. Rocky reefs form an important habitat on the continental shelf and one subject to disproportionate fishing pressure given the high productivity of this habitat relative to adjacent sandy seabed. Despite this, little is known of the extent and nature of these systems beyond their value to the fishing industry. This project collated all known mapping data from government and industry (including data acquired during CERF and NERP ...
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